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The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) accused head teachers of failing to respect the Islamic faith when organising sex education classes, building changing rooms and hosting religious assemblies.

In new guidance published yesterday, the MCB urged schools to build prayer rooms and individual changing cubicles and to allow girls to wear a head scarf and full-length loose skirt if they wished.

Boys should be allowed to grow beards for religious reasons and pupils should not be told to remove religious amulets, said the document, unveiled at a conference at London's Islamic Cultural Centre. The MCB, which has criticised state schools in the past for forcing Muslim children to take part in Christian assemblies, said many heads refused to take account of "reasonable requests" from parents and pupils.

Saudi Arabia is full of najis workers since the local population is quite antipathetic to working; in fact without the expatriate workers, all economic activity in Saudi Arabia would soon grind to a halt.

I sincerely wish Muslims, who wish to live a pure Islamic life, would migrate there and so reduce the number of najis workers there.